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  Microsoft Download Center Hacked? Or Is It Just A Typo?
Time: 10:21 EST/15:21 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Robert Stein

Alright, I was on my normal run for news this morning checking out if Microsoft released any new downloads at Microsoft download center. Sure enough, they have: "Visual FoxPro ODBC Driver Setups" Version 6.1, 91 MB. So I clicked the following link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=28554

Sure enough, it didn't bring me to the download information but directed me to a page Miocrosoft.com. On this page, it said my ""Browse Better" Browser Enhancement not found!" and that "You will need the "Browse Better" Browser Enhancement to visit our sites in the future!" So at this point I know it is not Microsoft and I click the update button. I get this address to automatically download a file:

http://64.33.2.56/pb/BrowseBetterSetup.exe

So I do a whois on the domain, miocrosoft.com and get the following information: Registrant:

  • NAMEZERO.COM (MIOCROSOFT2-DOM)
  • 51 University Ave, Suite K
  • LOS GATOS, CA 95030 US
  • Domain Name: MIOCROSOFT.COM

BrowseBettersetup.exe is 71 KB and not virus infected, from what I could tell. It is signed by LogicWorld. I've verified this on about 20 computers on the network.. So if you would like to try, go to the Download Center at the above address. Click Windows 98, by date. Choose the VB ODBC Setups as I said above. Please comment below, I'm in the process of notfiying Microsoft.

Update! The link is now fixed, 12 hours after notifying Microsoft:

Okay, the official response from a MS spokesperson, "There was no hack. The person who posted the page in question made a typographical error, and the page posted despite the error because the error resulted in a link to a live page on the Internet. The error has been corrected." Yea yea, I was wrong for the first two hours...then the title was changed, so I was really only wrong completely for the first two hours :-)

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#1 By 2 (Unknown) at 3/16/2001 11:35:00 AM
Beats the heck out of me! I've contacted MS and I should be expect a response any moment now.

#2 By 20 (Unknown) at 3/16/2001 12:11:00 PM
No, it's not a hack. It is definately a typo. In fact, just today, I tried going to msdn.miocrosoft.com and got a funny site, and thought they got hacked. When you click on the MS download link, there's a redirect and someone mistyped "microsoft" as "miocrosoft". It'll be fixed some time today.

#3 By 3 (Unknown) at 3/16/2001 12:13:00 PM
Looks a lot like a type to me as well.

#4 By 20 (Unknown) at 3/16/2001 12:15:00 PM
Furthermore, I am extremely disappointed in the ActiveWin news team for jumping the gun on this one. This is by no means good journalism, it is false sensationalistic tabloid reporting at its finest. I would expect that the reporters would use a little more common sense and do at least SOME or a LITTLE research before posting something so blatant as this.

On a side note, how long before The Register runs this as their lead front-page story?

#5 By 3 (Unknown) at 3/16/2001 12:29:00 PM
#8 - I've changed the title so we (activewin) don't all look like arses here despite me thinking it was a type anyway, heh.

#6 By 2 (Unknown) at 3/16/2001 2:20:00 PM
Browsebetter may be a feature for IE4. But I shouldn't have to download it for IE 5.5, should I? How could it be a typo? The link is perfect: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=28554 That isn't a typo. That page just prompts an ASP article with the download information entered in the template that the Administrators to the download center use. I DID do research, and I do know that when I user enters information into a asp page on their internal intranet there is no place for a URL. It simply asks for an article number. This is in no way tabloid reporting, and I object to your comments that we rushed to judgement.

#7 By 2 (Unknown) at 3/16/2001 2:24:00 PM
When an MS employee posts a download into an ASP page they don't enter the URL that we all use (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/release.asp?releaseid=28554) . That number on the end is automatically generated. No room for a typo.

#8 By 61 (Unknown) at 3/16/2001 2:28:00 PM
If you look closley, it points to miocrosoft.com, not microsoft.com notice the o?

#9 By 2 (Unknown) at 3/16/2001 2:47:00 PM
Are you sure about that? Here at Awin, we do not have to enter a URL for each specific full article & comment page...ie the one you are on.. (http://www.activewin.com/comments.asp?ArticleID=1433&Group=1) Notice, the article ID? That means that this is the 1433rd article we made since our NE was released. Notice MS's similarities? They may have very well released 28,554 downloads... therefore making it automatically generated. No user URL input required. The only URL they would have to inter is for their local intranet admin page which contains the download center admin panel.

#10 By 2 (Unknown) at 3/16/2001 4:08:00 PM
lol, at least you have good concrete proof. Now why does Microsoft have to take all day to investigate? :-) Alright, I'll partially give in...if the page was a redirect and not loaded on the MS download site template then okay, fine - a typo. But my scenario could have easily happen as well if it wasn't a redirect. Still should take them all day to fix a typo....

#11 By 2 (Unknown) at 3/16/2001 9:56:00 PM
Why would I delete it 27? It's important that your voice, and the others that have commented on this article be heard. Yes, it does look a typo now. But the evidence that dasheep provided wasn't available through my normal sources which verify our news accurately 99.99% of the time. Do you make mistakes? Thanks!

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